History of Indian Philosophy

SR No.: 007593
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Surendranath Dasgupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 1922
Total Pages: 2517
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 125 MB

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11ο The Višistā-dvaita School
(CH. Nộsimhārya and Rangācārya, who lived probably in the fifteenth century. Rāmānuja's disciple, Yajñamūrti, was an exceedingly learned man. When Rāmānuja accepted him as a disciple, he changed his name to Devarāț or Devamannātha or Devarāja and had a separate mațha established in Śrīrangam for him. Yajñamūrti had written two very lcarncd works in Tamil, called Jõāna-sāra and Prameyu-sāra. Rārnānuja had four of his disciples, Bhaktagrāmapürņa, Marudha-grāma-pūrņa, Anantārya and Yajñeśa, initiated into Vaisnavism by Yajñamürtil. Another pupil of Rāmānuja, Tirukurugai-piran Pillai, wrote a commentary of Nămm'ārvār's Tirutāy-mori. Pranatārtihara Pillan, another pupil of Rāmānuja, of Atreya gotra, had a son Rāmānuja, a disciple of Nadadur Ammal of the lineage of Vātsya Varada?. This Rāmānuja, alias Padmanābha, had a son called Śrī Rāmānuja Pillan, a disciple of Kidambi Rāmānuja Pillan. This Padmanābha had a son called Rāmānuja Pillan and a daughter Tötārambā, who was married to Anantasūri, the father of Venkatanātha. Rāmānuja's other disciple and nephew, Dāśarathi, of lādhüla gotra, had a son called Rāmānuja, who had a son called Todappă or Vāraṇādrīśa or Lokārya or Lokācārya. After Parāsara Bhattārya the Vedānti Mādhavadāsa, called also Nanjiar, became his successor. Madhavadāsa's successor was Nambilla or Namburi Varadārya or Lokācārya. He had two wives Andal and Sriraniganāyakī and a son called Rāmānuja?. Nambilla's other name was Kalijit or Kalivairī. Now Vāraṇādrīša became a disciple of Nambilla or the senior Lokācārya. Vāraṇādrīśa was known as Pillai Lokācārya. Namburi Varada had a pupil called Madhava. Varada had a son called Padmanābha who had a disciple called Rāmānujadāsa. Rāmānujadāsa had a son called Devarāja, who had a son called Srisailanātha, and Srāśailanātha had a pupil called Saumya Jāmātr muni or Ramyajāmātr muni, also called Varavara mun Yatindrapravana or Manavalamahāmuni or Periya-jiyar. It is that he was the grandson of Kattur-āragiya-vanavalapillai. All these people were influenced by the Sahasra-giti-vyākhyā of Kuresa. Namburi Varadārya, otherwise called Kalijit, had two other pupils called Udak-pratoļi-krsņa, and Krşņa-samāhbhaya, also called Krsnapāda. Krsnapāda's son Lokācārya was a pupil of
1 See Prapannāmặta, Ch. 26. . See Govindächăryar's Life of Rūmānuja.
3 He wrote two works called Surā-rtha-samgraha and Rahasya-traya. l'rapan umrla, 119/3.